4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn’t discovered for 3 days.

This year's Darwins lack only one award - shared by a government which requires a monopoly to deliver mail deciding it should also be in charge of your brain surgery; and the citizens who can't imagine what could go wrong.

Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.

"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am

This is pretty hilarious! There were a few more on the official site too, but nothing quite as good as the mental hospital bus, methinks.

strawman wrote:This year's Darwins lack only one award - shared by a government which requires a monopoly to deliver mail deciding it should also be in charge of your brain surgery; and the citizens who can't imagine what could go wrong.

Thanks for the nomination! I'd love to receive a Darwin (he's one of my personal idols, AND I share his birthday!), but they only give it to people who remove themselves from the gene pool, y'know.

Of course, this does raise the question of whether political affiliation is inheritable or not. My parents are both lifelong diehard Republicans. Of their children, one remains quite conservative, while two are moderate to liberal, depending on the issue.

So perhaps that means that political affiliation is actually inherited in a reversed fashion: you're more likely to be the opposite of whatever your parents were.

It would follow, then, that the more fervent a person is in their political beliefs, and the more intent they are in influencing the next generation, the more they should appear to hold the opposing viewpoint, so that their children will turn out alright.

So the most radical leftist and rightist whackaloons are actually extreme self-parodies. They really, really love both their kids and the party of their (secret) affiliation.

Which brings us to the disturbing truth: ASID has been Hillary Clinton's Drabblecast handle all along.

No problem. Just charter a plane to Bedlam, then pull up to my neighborhood and announce you have free Raider's tickets. The bus and plane will fill up lickity-split and no one will believe they don't belong in an institution (after all, a hugely disproportionally large percentage of Raiders fans are in custody already).

Varda wrote:Which brings us to the disturbing truth: ASID has been Hillary Clinton's Drabblecast handle all along.

While of course, false-flag operations are a frequent tool of leftist tools, there's just no way that Hillary would post such awful awesome puns and rhymes.